Graeme Hick

Personal information

Full name

Graeme Ashley Hick

Born

23 May 1966 (age 50)
Salisbury, Rhodesia

Nickname

Hicky, Ash

Height

6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

Batting style

Right hand bat

Bowling style

Right arm off break

Role

Batsman

International information

National side

England

Test debut (cap 548)

6 June 1991 v West Indies

Last Test

7 March 2001 v Sri Lanka

ODI debut (cap 112)

23 May 1991 v West Indies

Last ODI

27 March 2001 v Sri Lanka

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1984–2008

1997–1998

1988–1991

1987–1989

2008

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	65	120	526	651
Runs scored	3383	3846	41112	22059
Batting average	31.32	37.33	52.23	41.30
100s/50s	6/18	5/27	136/158	40/139
Top score	178	126*	405*	172*
Balls bowled	3057	1236	20889	8604
Wickets	23	30	232	225
Bowling average	56.78	34.20	44.43	29.55
5 wickets in innings	0	1	5	4
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	1	n/a
Best bowling	4/126	5/33	5/18	5/19
Catches/stumpings	90/–	64/–	709/–	289/–

Source: CricketArchive, 14 September 2008

Graeme Ashley Hick MBE (born 23 May 1966) is a former English international cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for the most matches in all forms of the game combined. He scored more than 40,000 first-class runs, mostly from number three in the order, and he is one of only three players to have passed 20,000 runs in List A cricket (Graham Gooch and Sachin Tendulkar are the others) and is one of only twenty-five players to have scored 100 centuries in first-class cricket. He is the only cricketer who scored first-class triple hundreds in three different decades (1988, 1997 and 2002). Despite these achievements, he is commonly held to have underachieved in international cricket, a view based on comparison of Hick's overall first-class batting average of 52.23 vis-à-vis his Test average of 31.32.

At one time Hick's bowling was a significant force, and his off-spin claimed more than 200 first-class wickets. However, after 2001 he rarely bowled, and took only one first-class and two List A wickets; indeed, after the 2004 season he did not bowl a single ball in either form of the game. Throughout his career he was an outstanding slip fielder: Gooch wrote in his autobiography that his ideal slip cordon would comprise Mark Taylor, Ian Botham and Hick.

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